6 Texas prisoners set to die in January
Associated Press - January 9, 2009
HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) - Texas is wasting little time this new year
claiming its annual notoriety as the nation's most active capital
punishment state.
The Associated Press reports convicted killer Curtis Moore is set for
lethal injection Wednesday in what would be the first execution in
the U.S. in 2009.
Moore was on parole for robbery when he was arrested for killing
three people during a drug-ripoff robbery in 1995 in Fort Worth.
It's the first of 8 scheduled punishments this month in the country.
The six Texas inmates set to die in January are among at least 14
with execution dates already this year. Three more are set to die in
early February, four in March and another in April.
The 18 prisoners put to death in Texas last year accounted for nearly
half of the 37 executions carried out in the country.
A record 40 condemned prisoners were executed in Texas during 2000.
On the Net:
Death Penalty Information Center
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